Conte E. de Launay d'Antraigues: Correspondence and papers

Unpublished literary manuscripts, and personal and family papers, some pertaining to d'Antraigues' son, Jules.
Unpublished litererary manuscripts:
-Unfinished epistolary novel Henri et Cécile, with many revisions apparantly made at the suggestion of Rousseau (10 cahiers, c. 200 pages, quarto, with 90 pages of related material)
-Talmi et Eliza "par j j rousseau" (c. 60 pages, quarto, 1772-3)
-Lettres de Mme M... à son amant, autograph manuscript (11 pages, quarto, signed and dated 30 May 1781)
-Promenades, autograph manuscript (70 pages, dated 1873-4)
-La Fille de Chambre, autograph manuscript (70 pages, quarto)
-Translations from the Latin of Tacitus and Petronius (18 pages, quarto, signed and dated 1871)
-Mémoires de Sophie Alexandrine (11 pages, quarto)
Letters and papers:
Some 200 items, including letters and drafts by d'Antraigues, series by Victoire de Lambertye and Ida St Elme, papers relation to d'A's marriage to the singer Antoinette La Saint-Huberty, and to his wife's affairs, letters by Prince Potoski and notes by d'A on Poland, the document of 1668 creating the lands of Antraigues a comté, and some printed ephemera, together with a collection of papers belonging to Jules d'Antraigues, including 3 letters addressed to him by Dumouriez, his will, and numerous legal documents.
Also present is a folder of modern correspondences between the previous holder of the papers and various parties interested in their contents.

Unless restrictions apply, the collection is open for consultation by researchers using the Manuscripts Reading Room at Cambridge University Library. For further details on conditions governing access please contact mss@lib.cam.ac.uk. Information about opening hours and obtaining a Cambridge University Library reader's ticket is available from the Library's website (www.lib.cam.ac.uk).

Purchased at Sotheby's, 2 Feb. 1983

A catalogue of the collection can be found on ArchiveSearch.

Previously held by Ralph S. Elmes, of the University of Newcastle Upon Tyne, who inherited them from his father